Brandon Stanton Quotes
My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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William Shatner is living proof that if you are talented and nice, you can work in this industry forever.
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I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
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I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
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My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.
